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I was wondering if anyone had any good sources for reading online?
I guess I'm looking for an intermediate level source - but not text book based. Something like a news source for teens maybe? Things　like that.
Thank you in advance. ;D

This is a link to an on-line library with Japanese novels. I have read maybe five of them and they are quite easy to read although some of them contains old/rarely used kanji.

http://www.aozora.gr.jp/

「海」By 太宰治（Dazai Osamu）「蛙」And 「絵本」Both by 林芙美子（Hayashi Fumiko）

All of these are quite easy to read and also very interesting I think. If you want something more challenging, try 「トロッコ」By 芥川龍之介（Akutagawa Ryunosuke)

Good luck!

I know you were asking about online resources, but I just remembered a book I have, [i]Breaking Into Japanese Literature[/i] (sorry I don't have access to publisher info etc at the moment) - it's got I think 7 different short stories from Natsume Soseki and Akutagawa Ryunosuke, organized in order of difficulty, and it's bilingual - Japanese on the one side, English on the other, with a dictionary at the bottom. The stories were great and the dictionaries etc were really quite handy!

I completely forgot about the mp3 files! Yeah, so you get listening practice to boot! V^.^

Yes, the readers such as mysticfive mentioned are great.

The following two are easily found on Amazon and a cd is included where you can listen to the stories/essays (depending on which version you get) as many times as you want.

Read Real Japanese Essays
With essays by: Haruki Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Junko Sakai, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Kou Machida, Yoko Ogawa, Koiichiro Hirano, Hideo Levy
[URL=http://www.amazon.com/Read-Real-Japanese-Essays-Contemporary/dp/4770030576/ref=pd_sim_b_1]http://www.amazon.com/Read-Real-Japanese-Essays-Contemporary/dp/4770030576/ref=pd_sim_b_1[/URL]

Read Real Japanese Fiction
With short stories by: Hiromi Kawakami, Otsuichi, Shinji Ishii, Banana Yoshimoto, Kaoru Kitamura, Yoko Tawada
[URL=http://www.amazon.com/Read-Real-Japanese-Fiction-Contemporary/dp/4770030584/ref=pd_sim_b_1]http://www.amazon.com/Read-Real-Japanese-Fiction-Contemporary/dp/4770030584/ref=pd_sim_b_1[/URL]

These readers are bilingual, with a great dictionary and very thorough explanations of grammar and whatnot. The stories chosen increase in difficulty as the books go on and are in general really fun to read. Furigana is included the first time a kanji comes around but then the next time it pops up it's not included to force you to remember the readings.

In any case, those are my additional thoughts on those readers.

At this website you can read several authors and the stories include furigana. (Or you can choose the option that removes the furigana but I haven't been to this site for awhile so I don't quite remember where to do that. But it wasn't hard, I remember that at least.) The link provided goes to Ryuunosuke Akutagawa as that's who I was looking up at the time.
[url=http://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person879.html]http://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person879.html[/url]

:D :D Enjoy!

Are you looking for something like these? http://image.lang-8.com/w0_h0/0cb32bf056cbffad918db54ab4e7665352d4505d.JPG (I'm not certain of the Japanese in this one.) http://image.lang-8.com/w0_h0/ceea06e771870625a85d53efa0455b1c60308226.jpg (And I'm not entirely convinced that the English and Japanese entirely match, but the Japanese is [I believe] gramatically correct.)

I acually remember looking at the first link you posted years ago, Muffin, but I couldn't read the explanation very well at the time. It's nice to rediscover it and realize it's a lot easier than I thought :p